[GMW
#2906] Never Fail To Denounce An Injustice To
The Person At The Top
Idea Dream - Robert Muller's
Ideas 3001 to 3500
~ Idea 3301 - 3400
Section INTRODUCTION ~
A Boy's Letter to a Prime Minister
Someone wrote to me:
"Dear Mr. Muller, I love your book of 2000 Ideas but what
can I do? I am a nobody, having a very low, minor job in a
big firm. You were lucky to have a great life in high
positions allowing you to know the whole world. You are
still a big shot even if it is only for one dollar a year.
I cannot do anything and am very frustrated, unhappy with my
life. To read you made me even unhappier and frustrated."
I wrote him back: "Well, I have my frustrations too, e.g.
that so few of my books are being read and so few of my
ideas implemented. I am 77 years old and I could easily
give up. But when that thought occurs to me, I remember a
story from my youth which lifts me up again and prevents me
from giving up. It is a letter which I wrote when I was a
refugee at the age of sixteen, with my father being
mobilized in the French Army, my mother without barely any
resources and my studies and normal life interrupted. Here
it is:
Read the full story here:
http://goodmorning-world.blogspot.com/2013/12/never-fail-to-denounce-injustice-to.html
I have drawn two important lessons from this anecdote:
First — if you see an injustice, do not wait for a better world;
denounce it right away to the person at the top, even if you
have little chance of being heard; you will at least feel better
and sometimes you might even get results.
Secondly — when I became myself a close collaborator of three
Secretaries-General of the UN, I made it a point to ensure that
worthy letters written by humble, well-intentioned people were
always seen by them, acted upon and answered. The right to
complain and to receive a reply should be made a basic human
right, for government is here for the people and not for the
tranquillity of the bureaucrats.
Later I learned that President John Kennedy set the rule that
every hundredth letter from the vast amount of mail a President
receives every day from citizens be handed to him unopened, so
that he could read it and keep in touch with his people. This
good practice should be adopted by the heads of state of all
countries of the world. It would break the barriers which their
entourage usually builds around them under the pretext of
protecting their time. And in the year 2001, at the UN
University for Peace and Earth Council in demilitarized Costa
Rica, I was happy to learn that a position of Ombudsman would be
created to receive unattended complaints from people all over
the world. May God bless the incumbent of that new position.
And may my story encourage people to write to their heads of
state and parliamentarians.
Robert's
The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume
I Chapter 5 The Miracle of Individual Life
I often feel that my life is a lamp: a
temporary container filled with light, a flow of energy,
condensed and held together for a while in a mysterious,
marvelous living cosmos linked with the rest of the Earth
and the heavens through material, touchable, and
immaterial, invisible ties. Someday the lamp will
extinguish.
The material elements will be reabsorbed and
reborn by Mother Earth in her flows of life and energy.
The immaterial elements will return to a universal pool to
be reborn in other forms on this planet or elsewhere in
the universe.
My light will shine brightest, longest and
happily if I take good care both of my material and
immaterial forms, i.e. my body, my mind, my heart and my
soul.
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